HP Frenzie!

Well last night was the big night for Harry Potter fans everywhere. At 12:01am they started letting us have our copies of the final Harry Potter book.

In celebration of this event our local library held a party that went from 8pm to 12am. We signed up for it on Monday I think? Who can remember?

So yesterday we get home from a Chocolate tasting class (we got to sample different levels of chocolate...I was at my max at 60% cocoa! LOL! Darly says she liked the 88%, BLECH!) and Darly wants to set up her pool cuz it was H-O-T HOT! out there. We need to get an electric air pump as that took forever!

Then we were running around trying to get our costumes for the Party. Darly had to help me find my glasses (for the costume...I don't normally wear glasses) and we finally got dressed up as Professor Trelawney and Hermione.

We leave for the party and get there a bit early. The library is closed. They won't let us in yet! I was shocked...but apparently they weren't ready for us yet. Oh well. so I was heading back to the car when more people began to show up...so we ended up staying there on the sidewalk.

This one lady & her friend show up and are asking me who I'm supposed to be. I try to tell them and they have no idea who Prof Trelawney is...see they haven't read the books, just saw some of the movies. (Why are they here? I dunno.) So when we get in we are "sorted" into our houses and given a list of events. I was waiting for something more of instruction...but it never came. Folks were lining up to do the Jelly Bean Guess(Bertie Botts's Every Flavor Bean, of course!) and I overheard one say that it was to sign in. I guess they were wrong! So after waiting a bit Darly & I head into the library to begin some of the events.

They really had it all set up very well. I took my N.E.W.T.S. but have no idea how I did on them. The highest score got an early check out of the book. It went to some kid who got 61 out of 63 correct! I know there were 3 I didn't even answer so good for him! But remember that lady who hadn't even read the books? Well she glumms onto me and is asking me for the answers! WHAT? This is a contest lady! I'm not telling you if you didn't even bother to read the books. One of the questions was which book is the longest...course I didn't know and guess which books were mysteriously not on the shelves? I guessed "Order" I don't know if that's right or not...yet.

We also did a scavenger hunt. That was cool. They actually had mini statues or other stuff you can get from the movies at each point in the hunt. Like one of the clues was to find Dobby with a dragon. They have a doll of Dobby...it's cool and freaky. LOL! Another clue was to find an owl and some of them like to eat fish. Well they had real owls there...but it wasn't that owl. They had a stuffed owl on the fishtank. LOL! For our efforts we got a bookmark.

In the end we did NOT get to check out an early copy of the book. But I'm #13 on the hold list, and my copy is waiting for me to go & get it at the Library today. So I'll be at Hogwarts here for a bit...actually, I might not be there as Harry said he wouldn't return to school for his final year. Hummm? I'll be in England then...or Albania...or wherever he has to go.